If I’m looking back at 2025, it feels like the year I really embraced independent brands across price points. If you’ve listened to the podcast, talked to me at a watch event, or read between the lines of many of the articles I’ve written over the last few years, you’ll know that I’ve become...
One of the most reliable events on the watch release calendar every year is a glut of new watches in January celebrating the lunar new year, which this year begins on February 17. This is a very important holiday in many Asian countries, and brands with an international focus are not shy about...
It’s wild that the Casio Calculator Watch is not just still around but actively thriving. Retro designs are “in” right now, so it’s not a surprise to see these neat gadgets strapped on wrists in Brooklyn and Silver Lake, but there is something to be said about a collective desire to bring back...
Light and shadow: the essence of photography. For over 150 years, Leica has been perfecting its craft, creating optics that capture those fundamental elements of photography unlike anyone else. In 2022, Leica decided to branch out from cameras and optical instruments and create timepieces that...
What happens when sartorialists Mark Cho and Elliot Hammer (respectively, the founder and the creative director of The Armoury) come up with a watch brand of their own? Let’s find out in this hands-on review of the Temporal Works Series A line. The Armoury’s Temporal Works In case you are...
A significant portion of modern Luminox watches are made from a proprietary carbon-based composite known as Carbonox, but the material is typically only used for their cases and bezels, with rubber straps generally serving as the de-facto configuration. However, similar to forged carbon, Carbonox...
Ski jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Vienna Philharmonic playing Strauss waltzes at the Musikverein, a hangover… This is a random selection of traditional events happening on January 1st. In the world of watches, there’s another unescapable tradition — Rolex price increases. As of January...
The Citizen Promaster Diver “Fugu” is one of the most emblematic of the Japanese watchmaker’s vast and storied series of dive watches, and one of the few in that series to offer an automatic movement in addition to a time-tested and distinctly quirky design. Here’s what you should know about the...
Every year at around this time, watch publications like to make predictions about what we’ll see over the course of the next twelve months. Personally, I really enjoy this type of content. It sets the stage for the year in an interesting way, and it also reveals something about whoever is making...
If you're a vintage lover who thought the days of modern 36mm ultra-thin perpetual calendars were behind us, Vacheron has your back. But how does it stack up?
